Display apparatus capable of laterally shifting image

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11682104-B2
Application number	US-202117200399-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 12, 2021
Priority date	Mar 11, 2019
Publication date	Jun 20, 2023
Grant date	Jun 20, 2023

Abstract

Provided is a display apparatus including an image forming optical system configured to form an image to be displayed, an eyepiece optical system configured to provide the image formed by the image forming optical system to a pupil of an observer, and an image shifting optical system disposed on an optical path between the image forming optical system and the eyepiece optical system, the image shifting optical system being configured to shift the image formed by the image forming optical system in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis, wherein the image shifting optical system includes a first optical member having a first focal length and a second optical member having a second focal length, and wherein a distance between the first optical member and the second optical member along the optical axis is equal to a sum of the first focal length and the second focal length.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An augmented reality (AR) apparatus comprising:
an image forming optical system configured to form an image to be displayed;
an eyepiece optical system configured to provide the image formed by the image forming optical system to a pupil of an observer;
an image shifting optical system disposed on an optical path between the image forming optical system and the eyepiece optical system, the image shifting optical system being configured to move in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis to shift the image formed by the image forming optical system in the direction perpendicular to the optical axis,
an eye tracker comprising at least one processor configured to track a position of the pupil of the observer;
a controller comprising at least one processor configured to control a position of the image shifting optical system based on a change of the position of the pupil of the observer provided from the eye tracker; and
an actuator configured to move the image shifting optical system in the direction perpendicular to the optical axis based on a control of the controller,
wherein, when the image shifting optical system moves by a first distance in the direction perpendicular to the optical axis, the image is shifted by a second distance in the direction perpendicular to the optical axis,
wherein, when δ denotes the second distance, Δ denotes the first distance, and M A denotes the magnification of the image shifting optical system, δ satisfies δ=−Δ(1/M A −1).

2. The AR apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the image shifting optical system comprises a first optical member having a first focal length and a second optical member having a second focal length;
wherein a distance between the first optical member and the second optical member along the optical axis is equal to a sum of the first focal length and the second focal length, and
wherein the actuator is configured to simultaneously move the first optical member and the second optical member by a same distance in a same direction.

3. The AR apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the first focal length of the first optical member and the second focal length of the second optical member are equal to each other.

4. The AR apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the first optical member is spaced apart by the first focal length along the optical axis toward an image side from a first pupil on which the image is focused between the image forming optical system and the first optical member.

5. The AR apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the second optical member is spaced apart by the second focal length along the optical axis toward an object side from a second pupil on which the image is focused between the image shifting optical system and the eyepiece optical system.

6. The AR apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the first optical member and the second optical member respectively comprise a convex lens.

7. The AR apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the first optical member comprises a convex lens, and the second optical member comprises a concave lens.

8. The AR apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the image shifting optical system further comprises a beam splitter configured to transmit light incident from the first optical member and to reflect light incident from the second optical member.

9. The AR apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the image shifting optical system further comprises a beam splitter configured to reflect light incident from the first optical member and to transmit light incident from the second optical member.

10. The AR apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the first optical member comprises a concave lens, and the second optical member comprises a convex lens.

11. The AR apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the image shifting optical system further comprises a beam splitter configured to reflect light incident from the image forming optical system and to transmit light incident from the first optical member toward the second optical member.

12. The AR apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
a movement distance δ P of an exit pupil in the direction perpendicular to the optical axis satisfies δ P =M P ×δ,
M P being a magnification of the eyepiece optical system.

13. The AR apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the image forming optical system comprises:
a light source configured to emit illumination light;
a spatial optical modulator configured to form the image by reflecting and modulating the illumination light; and
a beam splitter configured to transmit the illumination light to the spatial optical modulator and transmit the image formed by the spatial optical modulator to the image shifting optical system.

14. The AR apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the image forming optical system further comprises an objective lens configured to collimate the illumination light emitted from the light source to the spatial optical modulator and focus the image formed by the spatial optical modulator on a first pupil between the image forming optical system and the image shifting optical system.

15. The AR apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the image forming optical system further comprises a spatial filter configured to remove light other than the image focused by the objective lens.

16. The AR apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the image forming optical system further comprises a folding mirror configured to bend a travel path of the image by reflecting the image focused by the objective lens.

17. The AR apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the image forming optical system comprises:
a light source configured to emit illumination light;
a collimating lens configured to collimate the illumination light into parallel light;
a spatial optical modulator configured to form the image by transmitting and modulating the illumination light that is collimated; and
an objective lens configured to focus the image formed by the spatial optical modulator on a first pupil that is located between the image forming optical system and a first optical member.

18. The AR apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the eyepiece optical system comprises:
a first beam splitter configured to reflect light incident from a first surface of the first beam splitter and to transmit light incident from a second surface of the first beam splitter;
a first mirror disposed on the second surface of the first beam splitter and configured to reflect light;
a second mirror configured to focus the image on the pupil of the observer; and
a second beam splitter configured to reflect light incident from the first mirror to the second mirror and to transmit light incident from the second mirror.

19. The AR apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the eyepiece optical system comprises:
a first beam splitter configured to reflect light incident from a first surface of the first beam splitter and to transmit light incident from a second surface of the first beam splitter;
a first mirror disposed on the second surface of the first beam splitter and configured to reflect light;
a second mirror configured to focus the image on the pupil of the observer; and
a second beam splitter configured to transmit light coming from the first mirror to the second mirror and to reflect light coming from the second mirror.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
• Myongji Univ Industry And Academia Cooperation

Inventors

• Shin Bongsu
• Han Woojun
• Kim Jaisoon
• Kim Sunil
• Sung Geeyoung

Classifications

• G06T5/003

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06V40/19

  Sensors therefor · CPC title

• G06T7/70

  Determining position or orientation of objects or cameras (camera calibration G06T7/80) · CPC title

• G02F1/29

  for the control of the position or the direction of light beams, i.e. deflection · CPC title

• G02B27/0075

  with means for altering, e.g. increasing, the depth of field or depth of focus · CPC title